Recoil

[kfeal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXMy...Y#action=share

[kfeal]

That video makes me want to build a trophy truck

[Hydra]

This video makes me want to drink Monster and have a hat on.

But in reality, takes balls, or lack of brains to point that thing wherever and pull the trigger. Very entertaining watch, I do say.

[kfeal]

What could it possibly cost to build one of those; minus all the top dollar parts.

Keep it street legal.
Suspension overhaul (what we do with jeeps anyway)
Brake upgrades
Gears
Forced induction?

I'm not talking build it to run the baja 1000, just to have some fun.

Base truck - 2012 Silverado 1500 Z71, 5.3L, 4door, 6' bed.

[Hydra]

Let's be serious:

The truck in the video is about as far divorced from any stock vehicle as a biplane is from an f15.

You're talking a new truck, as the only thing you would use is the motor, if you wanted to put out no where near that power. Otherwise it's retarded money, like >$100k

Custom frame and suspension including cantilever long travel stuff and one-off IFS.

Any thing you built off a production chassis, with off the shelf or even most home-made parts, with have been destroyed on the first jump.


This applies to every vehicle, ever produced: If it is made to drive on pavement, it was not made to take off jumps.

[kfeal]

I agree with the truck is the furthest from a stock vehicle. But, starting with a stock vehicle platform and with the qualification that the frame will bend in half if jumped without reinforcement, it doesn't seem to outlandish to build one of these on a decent budget.

Rear;
Get rid of everything.
- Ten bolt with leafs and drums in the dumpster.

Replace with?
- 14B, 4 link, long travel coil overs?

Front;
- IFS - I know nothing about it

Engine;
- 5.3L stock GM v8 - supercharge and tune?

[kfeal]

http://norcalprerunners.com/id23.html

Something like this but not as cut up.

[Hydra]

Front Suspension
Mazzulla long travel kit $6200
Fox 10" coil overs $700
Fox double bypass shocks $1500
King 2.5" bumps $500

Rear Suspension
F87 deavers 4" leafs $400
18" Fox triple bypass shocks rear $1500
2" fox bumps$400
Camburg shackles $150

You're talking over $11,050 for the suspension alone. Then you need a cage so your frame doesn't taco, and the body work so that 4 inches of uptravel doesn't drive your tires straight into every panel.

Even that truck you posted, with 68k in work done, would have been left limp after a quarter of the run that trophy truck did.


The low down: We're too poor, and dreams are free.

[Pedro]

What could it possibly cost to build one of those; minus all the top dollar parts.

There is no such thing as low dollar parts in that business. The money in a truck like BJs makes an ultra 4 car look like a kindergartener.

[Henchman]

Now I want to spend $100,000 on my truck

[CumminsJeep]

The 9 inch alone in that truck is worth more than anything Ill ever own... They wish that truck was even close to $100k.... I bet the prep for each race cost $100k.

Guarenteed that his Trophy Truck is well over $500,000. Have fun building one

With that being said, it is flat out amazing what that car can do. How is steps off does ledges doe

[Lawn Guyland]

Meh. That is all

[#DEZERTDAD]

I like Recoil 2 better then the first.

Dump all kinds of $$$ into any pickup truck and it still will never be a TROPHY TRUCK!

[Zullock Holmes]

That's easily a million dollar truck.

The amount of time and work that goes into TIG welding everything, Heat treating, materials, all of the fasteners are aircraft quality, the R&D time spent designing parts in solidworks.

I saw a Camburg built 6100 truck for sale for $675,000 and those things are still not the level of a trophy truck.

[HeavyMetal]

Buy a Geiser turn-key trophy truck for 400-600k.